A Scarlet Pansy

Robert Scully (Author) Robert Scully is the unknown author of A Scarlet Pansy. Robert J. Corber (Edited By) Robert J. Corber is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor in American Institutions and Values at Trinity College.

A dizzying mix of low camp and high drama, A Scarlet Pansy is at once laugh-out-loud funny, startling, odd, and ultimately--through the lens of our queer world today--very moving. Robert J. Corber's insightful and astute Introduction places the novel in a clear historical context while continually highlighting the emotional power and the camp glory of the novel and the erotic adventures of its hero/heroine, Fay Etrange. ---Michael Bronski, author of A Queer History of the United States A Scarlet Pansy is a queer romp of a read. . . Corber's Introduction is excellent on the nuanced presentation of gender and sexuality in the novel, and he is especially good at locating the text alongside a range of other, more familiar queer novels and writers, from Wilde and Radclyffe Hall to Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler.-- "Modern Language Review" A Scarlet Pansy is essential reading for scholars and fans of Anglo-American queer literature . . . To mix metaphors, this forgotten flower is quite a little gem, and Corber's editorial efforts are worthy of readers' deepest thanks and praise.-- "American Literary History" A Scarlet Pansy makes an important queer intervention in the historical record of how to be gay. It is a great pleasure to be brought out into pre-Stonewall gay culture along with the protagonist, and to see this combination of camp and sex.---Nicholas de Villiers, University of North Florida Fordham University Press deserves our gratitude for making available the original 1932 version of A Scarlet Pansy. . . Editor Robert J.Corber stresses in his introduction the novel's importance for both transgender and gay literature.-- "Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide"